Inform → Optimize → Operate.
The FinOps lifecycle has three phases:
Inform visibility, allocation, benchmarking — "where does the money go?"
Optimize right-sizing, commitments, scheduling — "spend less for the same value."
Operate continuous process, policies, automation — "make it stick."
A team that has just built dashboards showing spend by team & service
but hasn't acted on it yet is in which phase?
A) Inform
B) Optimize
C) Operate
D) Done
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